common ancestors. Even in populations in which close consanguineous marriage was proscribed, community endogamy would have … been sufficient to ensure high levels of homozygosity. Consanguineous marriage remains the choice of an estimated 10.4% of …. Recent studies have indicated that the shift from consanguineous marriage to panmixia has been accompanied by a reduction in …

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse … income. They have the option of unilateral divorce and subsequent remarriage. Through this channel, the marriage market … marriage market into a significantly larger share of household income. Hence, men's incentive to invest in education decreases …

We propose a search-matching model of the marriage market that extends Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor … female wages. We estimate that the share of marriage surplus appropriated by the man increases with his wage and that the …

of an efficiency loss. Efficiency can be restored through suitably designed marriage contracts because they can provide …) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce …

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage …. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is … afford to be more selective in choosing a mate and therefore will tend to postpone marriage until the most suitable partner …